The Men's short race at the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held at the Leopardstown Racecourse near Dublin, Ireland, on March 23, 2002. Reports of the event were given in The New York Times, in the Herald, and for the IAAF.

Complete results for individuals, for teams, medallists, and the results of British athletes who took part were published.

Race results

Men's short race (4.208 km)

Individual Rank Athlete Country Time Kenenisa Bekele 12:11 Luke Kipkosgei 12:18 Haylu Mekonnen 12:20 4 Sammy Kipketer 12:26 5 Craig Mottram 12:27 6 Julius Nyamu 12:30 7 Antonio Jiménez 12:30 8 Joseph Kosgei 12:32 9 Khalid El Amri 12:33 10 Driss Maazouzi 12:34 11 Jorge Torres 12:35 12 Saïd El Wardi 12:35 13 Mohamed Awol 12:38 14 Isaac Viciosa 12:39 15 Abiyote Abate 12:39 16 Million Wolde 12:40 17 Alberto García 12:41 18 Matthew Lane 12:42 19 Luciano Di Pardo 12:42 20 Alejandro Suárez 12:43 21 Michael Power 12:43 22 Roberto García 12:44 23 John Mayock 12:44 24 Abraham Chebii 12:45 25 Gareth Turnbull 12:45 26 Khoudir Aggoune 12:47 27 José Luis Blanco 12:49 28 Aziz Driouche 12:49 29 Roland Weissteiner 12:49 30 Phil Mowbray 12:50 31 Stéphane Desaulty 12:50 32 Fabrice Belot 12:50 33 Simone Zanon 12:51 34 Tarek Boukensa 12:51 35 Graham Hood 12:52 36 Azzedine Zerdoum 12:52 37 Mohamed Amyn 12:53 38 Pacifique Ayabusa 12:53 39 Spencer Barden 12:53 40 Jared Cordes 12:53 41 Luis Jesús 12:53 42 Ben Noad 12:54 43 Javier Carriqueo 12:54 44 Berhanu Addane 12:54 45 Sergey Davydov 12:54 46 Joël Bourgeois 12:55 47 Sean Kaley 12:57 48 Youssef Baba 12:57 49 Mário Teixeira 12:57 50 Hudson de Souza 12:58 51 Sammy Kiplagat 12:59 52 Martin Dent 13:00 53 Daisuke Kojima 13:01 54 Ali Ezzine 13:01 55 Mohamed Khaldi 13:01 56 Jason Woolhouse 13:01 57 Miroslav Vanko 13:02 58 Ridouane Es-Saadi 13:02 59 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana 13:02 60 Enos Matalane 13:02 61 Aleksey Sokolov 13:03 62 Hans Janssens 13:03 63 Robert Connolly 13:04 64 Dave Davis 13:04 65 Sergey Yemelyanov 13:04 66 Lorenzo Lazzari 13:04 67 Rachid Chékhémani 13:06 68 Paul Fenn 13:06 69 Salvatore Vincenti 13:07 70 Ghalem Allah Djellal 13:08 71 Manuel Silva 13:10 72 Rob Whalley 13:10 73 Habtai Kifletsion 13:11 74 Slavko Petrović 13:11 75 Aleksey Veselov 13:12 76 Paul Sumawe 13:12 77 Odilón Cuahutle 13:12 78 Rachid Safari 13:13 79 Ben Whitby 13:13 80 Denis Bagrev 13:14 81 Mark Thompson 13:16 82 Hamish Thorpe 13:17 83 Tony Cosey 13:18 84 Paul Reilly 13:19 85 Ricardo Ribas 13:20 86 Sergey Ivanov 13:21 87 Dieudonné Disi 13:22 88 Stefan Beumer 13:24 89 Junji Konomi 13:24 90 Jeremy Deere 13:24 91 Stefan Gerber 13:24 92 Merzak Ouldbouchiba 13:25 93 Paul McNamara 13:26 94 Mark Kenneally 13:26 95 Omar Chavarría 13:26 96 Boštjan Buč 13:27 97 Jonathon Riley 13:28 98 Fortunato Yaccob 13:28 99 Angelo Iannelli 13:31 100 Iván Hierro 13:31 101 Oscar Cortínez 13:37 102 Simon Vroemen 13:39 103 Peter Cardle 13:41 104 Rubin McRae 13:45 105 Matthew Holder 13:48 106 Tim Clerbout 13:52 107 Gareth Coughlan 13:55 108 Maxim Malenkih 13:57 109 Yury Baltsevich 13:58 110 Rembo Tesfay 14:03 111 Radik Khubbiev 14:08 112 Josep Sansa 14:10 113 Ronny Marie 14:11 114 Sergey Zabavskiy 14:14 115 Koji Yamamoto 14:16 116 Víctor Martínez 14:37 117 Abduvahob Nizamov 14:52 118 Michael Sanchez 15:06 119 Richard Muscat 15:45 120 Vasiliy Medvedev 15:46 121 Khasan Rakhimov 15:49 122 Vladimir Escajadillo 16:18 123 Lee Taylor 16:29 — Zeljko Celikovic DNF — Frederic Collignon DNS — Vital Gahungu DNS — Egide Manirazika DNS — Jean-Berchmans Ndayisenga DNS — Eric Sindayigaya DNS — Umaru Mohammed DNS — Mohammed Yagoub DNS — Hussein Abdallah DNS — Julius Gidabuday DNS — Paul Wakou DNS

Teams Rank Team Points Luke Kipkosgei 2 Sammy Kipketer 4 Julius Nyamu 6 Joseph Kosgei 8 (Abraham Chebii) (n/s) (Sammy Kiplagat) (n/s) 20 Kenenisa Bekele 1 Haylu Mekonnen 3 Mohamed Awol 13 Abiyote Abate 15 (Million Wolde) (n/s) (Berhanu Addane) (n/s) 32 Antonio Jiménez 7 Isaac Viciosa 14 Alberto García 16 Roberto García 20 (José Luis Blanco) (n/s) (Iván Hierro) (n/s) 57 4 Khalid El Amri 9 Saïd El Wardi 12 Aziz Driouche 24 Mohamed Amyn 33 (Youssef Baba) (n/s) (Ali Ezzine) (n/s) 78 5 Jorge Torres 11 Matthew Lane 17 Jared Cordes 36 Dave Davis 49 (Tony Cosey) (n/s) (Jonathon Riley) (n/s) 113 6 Driss Maazouzi 10 Stéphane Desaulty 27 Fabrice Belot 28 Rachid Chékhémani 52 117 7 John Mayock 21 Phil Mowbray 26 Spencer Barden 35 Ben Noad 38 (Rob Whalley) (n/s) (Ben Whitby) (n/s) 120 8 Craig Mottram 5 Michael Power 19 Martin Dent 43 Paul Fenn 53 (Mark Thompson) (n/s) 120 9 Luciano Di Pardo 18 Roland Weissteiner 25 Simone Zanon 29 Lorenzo Lazzari 51 (Salvatore Vincenti) (n/s) (Angelo Iannelli) (n/s) 123 10 Khoudir Aggoune 23 Tarek Boukensa 30 Azzedine Zerdoum 32 Mohamed Khaldi 44 (Ghalem Allah Djellal) (n/s) (Merzak Ouldbouchiba) (n/s) 129 11 Graham Hood 31 Joël Bourgeois 40 Sean Kaley 41 Jeremy Deere 61 (Peter Cardle) (n/s) 173 12 Gareth Turnbull 22 Robert Connolly 48 Paul Reilly 58 Paul McNamara 62 (Mark Kenneally) (n/s) (Gareth Coughlan) (n/s) 190 13 Sergey Davydov 39 Aleksey Sokolov 47 Sergey Yemelyanov 50 Aleksey Veselov 55 (Sergey Ivanov) (n/s) 191 14 Luis Jesús 37 Mário Teixeira 42 Manuel Silva 54 Ricardo Ribas 59 192 15 Pacifique Ayabusa 34 Jean Bosco Ndagijimana 46 Rachid Safari 56 Dieudonné Disi 60 196 16 Jason Woolhouse 45 Hamish Thorpe 57 Rubin McRae 63 Matthew Holder 64 229 17 Radik Khubbiev 65 Abduvahob Nizamov 66 Vasiliy Medvedev 67 Khasan Rakhimov 68 266 Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result (n/s: nonscorer)

Participation According to an unofficial count, 124 athletes from 38 countries participated in the Men's short race. The announced athletes from , , , and did not show.

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See also 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior women's race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Women's short race 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race

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